Leelu Dallas...Multipass? No! It's the special get-backstage wrist brace for our wrists so we could get...err...

Backstage! Yeah!

Well that was fun. We did a gig tonight at Allphones Arena, where tomorrow night J-Lo will be playing.

Cheers to Sue for inviting us to come to a big party and play with lots of sound equipment, lights, and a big crowd. 

We're not yet jaded enough yet to be unappreciative of a Big Venue with Big Stuff. and in all likelihood, it will be quite a while before we go 'meh' about such things. Every now and again ya gotta stop and soundcheck the roses, to lay waste to a metaphor.

On certain days, we feel grateful to receive a free soft drink from the places we play at, and full soundo service plus dressing room? Ok, put on your best Monty Python/Welsh accent and say it with me:

Bloooooody Luxury :-)

Mr Wizard setting up

Double Bill, Single Bill in motion and Mr Wizard setting up.

I took a look around as the guys set up for sound check and found myself drawn to the media servers (funny that eh?)

McIntosh as media servers? There's only 1 mouse button!

Go BINARY you latte sipping, beret wearing, OS-X using, single mouse button...err...oops. Looks like a PC vs Mac rant slipped in there some how...Err..it's late.

Still......GET TWO BUTTONS ALREADY!! Moving on...

Down the hall, away from the stage and look...a Dressing room, LUXURY!

And yea Veriily, on the wall of our dressing room, was the Itinerary of the Wiggles from their gig there on Sunday.

We're not worthy. Bow before the masters.

On the walls of the backstage area are pictures from famous artists who have played there, and the occasional instructional sign , such as.. 

What? WHAT??

After our sound check, we luxuriated in our stately dressing room, drank free softdrinks (OMG!) and generally swanned about.

This is the life.

We could tell when the first act of the night had started, the subwoofers began to shake the whole place and it was at that point I went in search of coffee.

Finding coffee is my super power. No matter where I am, I seem to be able to locate the java. It's uncanny.

Here's the crowd for the 1st act of the night, filmed from the vantage point i found whilst in search of said coffee.

After a while, it was time for us...

As per usual, my blogging stops when the Audience's start.

Cheers to Jason for helping us pitch our cd's to the crowd (hey, who can blame us?).

After our set, I grabbed some footage from the floor area as the DJ's finished the night off.

Now I gotta say, we might have been reasonably well received, but there's this one Korean Guy with some dancing song that just seems to be the thing of the moment...:-)

A happy end of year celebration to all!